Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2015/Schadenfreude

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Hello! What a great topic you have chosen! So interesting and definitely prevalent in today's narcissistic society ;) I have a few suggestions for your book chapter. Schadenfreude is characterised as pleasure at the suffering of others. I would look at the relationship between schadenfreude and envy (for example some studies reveal scahadenfreude predicts envy while others do not).

I believe a key theory to explain schadenfreude is the biological theory. Studies have shown that a stronger anterior cingulate cortex activity is linked to schadenfreude. I have suggested a few links to help you with your chapter below.

Takahashi, H., Kato, M., Matsuura, M., Mobbs, D., Suhara, T., & Okubo, Y. (2009). When your gain is my pain and your pain is my gain: neural correlates of envy and schadenfreude. Science, 323(5916), 937-939. Leach, C. W., Spears, R., Branscombe, N. R., & Doosje, B. (2003). Malicious pleasure: schadenfreude at the suffering of another group. Journal of personality and social psychology, 84(5), 932. van Dijk, W. W., Ouwerkerk, J. W., Goslinga, S., Nieweg, M., & Gallucci, M. (2006). When people fall from grace: reconsidering the role of envy in Schadenfreude. Emotion, 6(1), 156.

Good luck and i am looking forward to reading this :) --U3034876 (discuss • contribs) 10:51, 23 October 2015 (UTC) THANK YOU!!! Have most of these, but some are new and look very helpful!

I must agree on the previous suggestions. I had a look at the same articles and a few more which I'll reference that I think will assist you greatly in your study of schadenfreude. The biological theory is a very prominent one and I looked into a few articles that explore neurological correlations when examining schadenfreude. It may benefit you to look into the effects of oxytocin in modulating schadenfruede and envy - Shamay-Tsoory, S. G., Fischer, M., Dvash, J., Harari, H., Perach-Bloom, N., & Levkovitz, Y. (2009). Intranasal administration of oxytocin increases envy and schadenfreude (gloating). Biological psychiatry, 66(9), 864-870. These other articles are worth looking at also Smith, R., Turner, T., Garonzik, R., Leach, C., Urch-Druskat, V., & Weston, C. (1996). Envy and schadenfreude. Feather, N. T., & Sherman, R. (2002). Envy, resentment, schadenfreude, and sympathy: Reactions to deserved and undeserved achievement and subsequent failure. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 28(7), 953-961. All the best. --U3127811 (discuss • contribs) 23:05, 24 October 2015 (UTC) Thank you!!! Very helpful!

Hello friend! I noticed that you hadn't started on your self evaluation section. I cam across an article that might help you. I've written a starting point on your chapter for that section.If you like the idea, here is the reference: Van Dijk, W. (2013). Why do we sometimes enjoy the misfortune of others? | Big Questions in Society | the InMind blog | In-Mind. In-mind.org. Retrieved 25 October 2015, from http://www.in-mind.org/blog/post/why-do-we-sometimes-enjoy-the-misfortune-of-others. Good luck! U3085835 (contribs) 21:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

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